External HDD?

hey,
i was wondering if it would be worth buying an external hardrive, and if anyone here uses them, i started needing to delete photos all the time to have memor for new ones, and i really dont like storing them on cd only. So do you think it would be worth buying an external HDD to store photos?
And if i get a decent brand one is there really any chance of memory loss from it?
Thanks!

hey,
i was wondering if it would be worth buying an external hardrive, and if anyone here uses them, i started needing to delete photos all the time to have memor for new ones, and i really dont like storing them on cd only. So do you think it would be worth buying an external HDD to store photos?
And if i get a decent brand one is there really any chance of memory loss from it?
Thanks!

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It'll be way cheaper for you to get more memory than an external HDD! Of course, an external HDD is very good, but you have to ask yourself if you really need it or if there is a way around your problem which is cheaper, unless you just feel like spending the money, no matter what!

The previous posters are pretty right too; You ought to sort out what pictures are really important to you and store them on a CD. The quality doesn't get better/worse because you store them on an HDD/CD!

BTW, do you mean memory or HDD space? In any case, it'll be cheaper to get more HDD and/or memory than an external HDD...

Yep! In that case it is an advantage to have it! If you are going to transfer data between different computers, you can definitely do with an external. Depending on what additional space you lack/need though, you may want to consider one of those USB keys. They are smaller and store up to a gig, if I'm not too outdated... You can use one of those keys exclusively for pictures. In that way you can bring it to friends too (having it in your shirt pocket!).

I don't think that tape drives aren't too expensive (maybe a used one for 120m or something like that) and you would have to buy a scsi controller, tapes, expensive cables etc. (off course there are IDE tape drives, I've heard different things about).